Are you programming a festival, concert series or club date? Genius Loci Ensemble is ready to tour in 2025. Contact us for details.
Genius Loci Ensemble channels the spirits of place and responds to the sounds of our environment, celebrating the beauty in nature. Our repertoire comes from our deep history in free jazz, jazz, hip hop and spoken word, and from our Genius Loci and Ars Transmutatoria projects. Our intergenerational mixed race multi-genre band will bring Canada and its wilderness to you in a kaleidoscope of music, circling in multi-dimensions. We draw on our combined musical history from working with innovators in free jazz such as Paul Bley, Cecil Taylor, Misha Mengelberg, Barre Phillips, Jay Clayton and bring their ideas forward into the future of music with the talents of the next generation. Our music label, Jazz from Rant, has nearly 70 recordings and we have recently recorded in Rome, Helsinki, London, Montreal and more.
Our band members are Jeannette Lambert, voice and production, rappers van garden, beamer!, Michel Lambert, drums and percussion, Reg Schwager, guitar. We are open to collaboration with local musicians and primarily female talented members of our musical network. As strong improvisors every performance promises to be unique and customized to the environment.
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“Lyricism, swing, blue notes, contemporary suites, distributed with attention and accuracy, precision and just the right amount of madness … We hear the air of time passing, the life that is there. We hear the pleasure of the talents that offer themselves to rub together, with sparks in the fingers and voices, for an eternal bonfire in a renewed snapshot.” LA GAZETTE BLEUE (France)
“art at a very high level” CADENCE (USA)
“deep emotion that only excellent vocals have” NIHON KEIZAI SHIMBUN (Japan)
“delicateness, creativity and telepathic interaction” ALL MUSIC GUIDE (USA)
